Cheltenham: Envoi Allen may prove to be the safest investment of our times

Is Envoi Allen as good as he looks?

Back in the olden days, Irish racing followers used to shorten the winter by playing the ‘guess the banker’ for Cheltenham - though that when our hopes seldom extended past two or three winners. The pastime has lessened in importance recently as we now regularly capture more than a dozen wins. Notwithstanding this, Envoi Allen still looks like one of those old-fashioned ‘Irish Bankers.’ It would be tempting to say that ‘today is the day’ for Envoi Allen to prove that all the talk of his greatness and invincibility are justified but this would be unfair. He has already gone a long way to prove both to be true in a short but illustrious career.